on top of sth

Definition

› in addition to something else that is bad: And then, on top of everything else, her car was stolen. › able to deal with or in control of something: I'm not at all sure that he's on top of the situation.

(Definition of on top of sth from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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